Saturday, May 15, 2004

Booknotes Transcript: The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America’s Military by Dana Priest "We`re still in the situation where people say this military shouldn`t be doing this. They should be fighting wars. At the same time there`s no one else to send and the U.N. and the U.N. organization is not funded or organized properly and the U.N. is a reflection of all of these countries. So there is a widespread frustration not only in the U.S. government but in the world community that militaries shouldn`t do nation building but there`s no one else to do it and there has not been the political leadership to build another apparatus that could take that on and that`s the problem." The book contains stories of rape and murder, American military people serving life sentences as a result. UN fecklesness and corruption. Sound familiar? It should, only it's not about Iraq.

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